Bonnie led Kol to her room, as much as she didn't want him in there she knew her father would be pissed to come home and find an Original vampire in his house, especially after what had happened today.

Rudy knew Kol was a vampire. When he returned as the new mayor he asked Bonnie if Kol was and she said he was one of the Originals. He's nearly lost his head when she told him but she reminded him that Kol left and wasn't coming back so if her dad came back tonight and saw Kol, she'd never hear the end of it.

Bonnie took a seat on the end of her bed and tried to keep her eyes off Kol as he looked around her room but failed miserably. She noticed that his hair was different; it wasn't slightly spiked at the front like it used to be but now lay against his forehead. She found that she liked it, it suited him.

"How have you been?" Kol finally spoke and Bonnie raised an eye brow in response.

Did he really just ask her that?

"Whatever you came here for just spit it out so I can get you out of my house," she ignored his question and rushed him to get to the point of his visit.

"Well, you're the one who said I could come in but fine," he said with a hint of amusement and Bonnie stiffened as he took a seat beside her on the bed. "What do you know of Silas?" he asked her.

"Not much, only what I've heard from Shane," she answered. "That he is an immortal being who was imprisoned and buried alive by a witch. He never spoke much to me about Silas."

"Because he knew that if he told you, you would realise raising Silas would be a terrible mistake," Kol responded. "This is why I have come to you, Bonnie; because I know you are the only one who will listen." Bonnie looked straight ahead while Kol looked to her. "Silas cannot be released."

"Silas is buried with the cure, isn't he?" she asked and could see him nod out of the corner of her eye. "And releasing him would be bad?"

"More like catastrophic. It is said that with the awakening of Silas will come the end of time," he told her and she finally turned to look at him and saw that he was being serious, there was no hint of humour anywhere on his face or in his eyes.

"How do you know this?"

"Years ago I knew this coven of witches, they knew of Silas and they told me and said he must never be risen or he will bring the end of the world then years later I came across this group of Silas worshippers, they wanted to awake him."

"You killed them," she finished for him and he nodded.

"Every last one of them," he said and felt her tense up when he placed a hand over hers. "Bonnie, you are the only one who can do the spell to raise Silas so I felt that it was you who truly needed to know what you would be doing."

"But Elena needs –

"Elena doesn't need anything," he cut her off. "She is perfectly fine as a vampire, darling so stop putting her first and start putting yourself first."

"You can't come back here and start telling me what to do," she said and snatched her hand back and stood up to put some distance between them but it wasn't any use, he followed her.

"I'm not telling you what to do; I'm telling you what you need to know," he stood right behind her and placed a hand on either shoulder. "All I want to do is keep you safe, darling."

She spun around and once again pushed him away. "I don't need you to keep me safe," she told him. "I don't need you to do anything for me."

Kol took Bonnie's face in his hand and made her look at him, something she had been refusing to do since he got here.

"Bonnie, listen to me; I don't care what I have to do or who I have to kill, I will not let you and your friends awaken Silas. Even if I have to kill your hunter with my own hands and suffer the curse, I really don't care, I will do it," he told her truthfully.

Dealing with the hunter's curse isn't exactly how he wanted to spend the next twenty or so years but if that is what it took, then so be it.

"Would you kill me?" she challenged him and her eyes bored into his. "If I'm the only one who can do the spell wouldn't killing me be the better option?"

"I would never kill you, Bonnie," he admitted and his thumb brushed over her cheek bone affectionately. "But I have no qualms about leaving this town and taking you with me somewhere they will never find us."

Kol suddenly dropped to his knees in front of her, her room now filled with the sounds of cracking bone and Kol's cries of pain but he never lowered his head. Even if his body was overcome with pain, he kept his head up and made sure her eyes never left his.

Bonnie just stood tall in front of his, eyes locked with his, but her composure would fall just a little bit with every pained groan that came from Kol's mouth but she didn't ease up.

This wasn't just about what he said, this was about every he had done to her. This was about him leaving her. It had hurt her more than she ever wanted to admit to anyone, her friends might have thought she would have been overacting but Bonnie had never trusted vampires but she trusted this one. She let herself love him and he broke her heart.

She wanted him to hurt like he hurt her.

Her magic let up sooner than she had planned, but she couldn't exactly keep torturing an Original vampire in her room when her dad had just arrived home.

"You better be gone by the time I come back up," she threatened before she attempted to walk around him but his arms had weakly grabbed around her legs, stopping her from leaving.

"I'm only trying to keep you alive," he managed to get out through the pain and let go of her legs as the healing slowly began to take effect.

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Kol Mikaelson returned back to his brother's mansion, now fully healed from Bonnie's earlier assault. The youngest male Original honestly did not see that coming...

He didn't expect it to hurt as much as it did either. He didn't doubt her, but he didn't realise just how powerful she was. It had to be the Expression magic; she couldn't just become that powerful over a three month period.

He'd never known a witch to become that much stronger in such a short period of time.

"What happened to you?" Klaus asked his brother when Kol entered the study where Klaus had been painting his latest masterpiece.

"She attacked me," he muttered and dropped himself on the couch. "Our conversation was going so well then she just unleashed hell on me."

"Hell hath no fury like a witch scorned," Klaus smirked and continued to paint.

"I can't believe she did that."

"You broke her heart, brother, what did you expect? For her to welcome you with open arms?"

"Of course not but I was not expecting that level of power from her," he said and Klaus ceased painting and turned his attention to his brother. "How did you feel when tried to kill you the night of the sacrifice?"

"Like I was being ripped apart from the inside," Klaus answered as he recalled that night in his memory.

"And that was with the power of a hundred dead witches?" Klaus nodded. "She doesn't have that yet she broke nearly every bone in my body in mere seconds."

"Impressive," Klaus responded. "I guess that professor had made more progress with her than I originally thought," he mused to himself.

"How could you let her get close to him?"

"She's not my responsibility, Kol," Klaus rolled his eyes.

"Then why didn't you call me to tell me what the hell he was doing to her?" Kol shot at him. "I would have come back and taken care of it before it got to this stage."

"Don't you like her being all powerful, brother?" Klaus questioned with a smirk.

"I don't like her dabbling in something as dangerous as expression," he corrected his brother. "You've seen what it has done to witches, Nik, we both have and I will not allow Bonnie to succumb to the same fate."

One thing Bonnie's father had said was right, she did need help.

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The next day Bonnie found herself stuck on decade dance decoration duty, it was usually Caroline's job but the young blonde couldn't bring herself to leave Tyler yet, so Bonnie offered to take over for her and the blonde reluctantly agreed.

"Isn't this usually Caroline's duty?"

Bonnie let out an annoyed sigh as soon as she heard the accented voice. "Caroline is busy helping Tyler, you know her boyfriend whose mother you viciously killed?"

"Tyler brought that upon himself," Klaus responded and Bonnie nearly choked on her own saliva.

"No one asks for their parent's to be murdered by some demented ass bastard," she bit back, trying as hard as possible to keep her voice low. "Except for maybe you considering you killed your own mother."

"Careful of how you speak to me, Bonnie," Klaus warned and Bonnie scoffed.

"Or what? You'll kill me in front of all these people?"

"No, I'll kill all these people," he smirked.

"You should ask Kol what I did to him last night," she said with a smug grin. "It would make me very happy to do the same thing to you."

"Yes I heard that you hurt my brother last night," Klaus said in a not so happy tone of voice.

"Yeah well your brother hurt me so we're even," she countered and finished off the final balloon and let it drop to the ground. "What the hell are you doing here anyway?" she asked him before moving onto the next task Caroline had assigned to her.

"I wish for a favour," he shrugged and Bonnie snapped back around to look at him like he was insane.

"Are you kidding me?" she stared at him. "You still owe me for saving your ass from Alaric and you're already asking for more favours? You're running up quite a tab here, Klaus."

The hybrid couldn't help but crack a smile. "I'll find a way to pay you back, I assure you."

Not giving in, but curious, she asked, "What do you need?"

"A distraction for my maniac of a brother," Klaus answered and Bonnie let out a groan. "He's been getting into all sorts of trouble and there is only one person I can think of to keep him out of it," he said and gave her what he probably thought to be a charming smile.

Too bad Bonnie found absolutely nothing charming about the hybrid in front of her.

"Would he actually talk to me after last night?"

"If you called him, he would drop everything and run to you."

It was almost worth doing to see if Klaus was right. "Is his number the same?" Klaus nodded. Bonnie sighed and pulled her phone from her back pocket and scrolled down to the name and number she could never bring herself to delete. She pressed send and held the phone up to her ear and waited for Kol to answer.

"Bonnie," was all he said when he finally answered.

"Hey, look I'm sorry about last night but I've been thinking about what you said, about Silas and if he really is as dangerous as you say then I think it's worth talking over," she said and waited for his reply.

"Where do you want me to meet you?"

"Well, I'm stuck at the school for most of the day; I have a bunch of stuff to do for the dance tonight so if you can just come here that would be great," she told him and sent a glare to Klaus who looked just about ready to pat himself on the back for being right.

"Okay, I'll be there in twenty," he replied.

"Okay, great, thanks."

"Just when I thought I couldn't hate you any more than I already do," she grumbled to Klaus as she slid her phone back into her pocket.

"Don't hate me for being right, love," he smirked.

"You're right. There are so many other reasons to hate you," she quipped. "You should leave before he gets here," she added before she went back to doing what she was previously doing.

"Just keep him busy as long as you can, I just need him out of trouble for a while," he told her and she nodded, her back still to him. "And thank you, Bonnie."

"Why don't the rest of you believe him about Silas?" she couldn't help but ask him before he turned to leave. It was a question that had been playing on her mind since last night.

Why was Kol the only one who believed in him?

"Who is to say we don't?"

"If you did you wouldn't be looking for the cure," she said and then noticed the look on his face, like he wanted her to know that he was hiding something from them, that he had a different plan to theirs. "You don't really want the cure, do you?"

Klaus just smirked at her before wishing her luck with his brother and leaving her alone.

"God, I hate him," she muttered to herself as she watched him but she still couldn't help but smile.

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Bonnie was in the backstage area of the theatre department, sorting through boxes of the decorations they had ordered for the dance when she felt a pair of hands grab her waist, unfortunately it had startled her and the sudden movement caused the box cutter she was holding to cut through the tape of the boxes to slice her hand.

"Oh, crap!" she gasped and held her now bleeding hand. She heard Kol curse from behind her and spun her around to face him. "Crap that hurts," she whined and looked up at Kol but glared when she saw he was smiling. "What the hell are you smiling for? That really hurt you asshole!" she whacked him with her good hand.

"I'm sorry but…you just looked so adorable like that," he chuckled and took a hold of the bleeding hand to inspect the wound. He saw that the cut started between her index finger and thumb and stretched down towards the middle of her hand. "But I am sorry; I didn't know you were handling a blade."

"It's fine," she brushed him off. "I just need something to wrap it up in," she said and attempted to pull her hand back but he kept a firm grip on it.

She hissed when his thumb ran over the wound then watched as he bought his thumb to his lips. She watched his eyes closed as he savoured the taste of her blood. His eyes opened and she knew what he was silently asking.

What she should have done was use her powers to throw him into the wall across from them and send him an aneurysm that he would still be feeling next week but instead she nodded. She couldn't help it. She knew it was cheesy and corny, but the look in his eyes was just so intense that she couldn't say no.

He lifted her hand to his mouth and his lips covered the small wound and he began to suck lightly, only taking what the wound would give him and nothing more.

Oh God, this is bad. This is very, very bad, Bonnie's mind said over and over again. She needed to pull it away from him; she needed to pull away from him. But it just felt so good to have his lips on her skin

"Kol," she tried to get his attention but it only came out as a breathy whisper as he tongue swiped over the wound.

Bastard!

He knew she was enjoying this.

"Okay, that's enough," she said and thankfully her voice came out strong enough that he heard it and pulled back but not before placing one last kiss to her hand.

Kol said nothing as he reached passed her and pulled a black, silk scarf from one of the surrounding boxes and began to gently wrap it over her wound.

"Thank you," she said softly as he tied the ends of the fabric together.

"You're welcome," he smiled and reached to push some hair out of her face but she caught his hand.

"Don't, Kol," she frowned. "I need to talk about Silas."

"What changed your mind?" he asked her and his hand dropped back to his side. "Yesterday you wanted nothing to do with it."

"Yesterday I was overwhelmed and I was angry but when I calmed down I did think about what you told me and if this guy has got you spooked then it's definitely worth thinking about."

Kol looked over her face, looking for any sign of a lie or doubt but found nothing. She wasn't lying to him, what Kol told her last night did concern her and she did want to talk more about it just not necessarily talk about it with Kol.

"Did you want to go outside and talk?" she asked him and began to lead him out and towards one of the exits leading to the back of the school. Being in the opened would be much safer she thought.

The dance committee can survive without her for an hour or so.

"So," she started when they sat on the bleachers that looked over the football field. "Silas?"

"I covered pretty much everything last night, Bonnie," he said. "Silas is dangerous and raising him would be a terrible mistake."

"But you have no real proof that he actually exists, only the word from a couple of quacks," she responded.

"Would you really want to take the chance of releasing hell on earth just so Elena can be human again? Something that I doubt it will stick anyway."

"She's my friend and I have to help her," Bonnie replied even though some of her agreed with Kol. If Elena turned back to a human, it wouldn't last. Something would happen and she'd wind up being a vampire again.

"Everyone here just bends over backwards for that waste of space and it makes me sick," Kol groaned in frustration. He could never understand the appeal of Elena Gilbert or what it was about her that made people just line up to sacrifice themselves for her.

"Once again, Elena is my friend," she responded, not appreciating the way he was speaking of Elena. Yes, Elena may not be the most attentive friend anymore but she was still a friend.

"She's not, darling, she may have been but she isn't anymore. Everything you do for her is now out of habit. You feel it's your duty when it's not," he made her look at him. "You don't need to help her anymore."

"Does she ever thank you for the things you do for her, the risks you take for her?" he questioned her and Bonnie shook her head.

Elena had never thanked her, maybe once or twice at the beginning but definitely not as of late but Bonnie knew she was grateful for what she did, or at least she thought she was.

"If you ask me, she acts like she is entitled to your magic; everyone here does even my brother."

Bonnie definitely agreed with that. Sometimes the witch found herself wondering how everyone would react if she said no for once. They'd probably threaten her into it somehow…

"I just want you to know that I have every intention of stopping your friends and my family from finding the cure and I plan on stopping them from using you to find it," he responded and brushed his fingers against her cheek. "I'm here for you, Bonnie. I'm not going to let anything happen to you."

Bonnie nearly jumped out of her skin when she so suddenly felt his lips on hers. She froze, not even reacting to the kiss or his hand on her cheek.

Three months without him…it was so hard for her not to feverishly kiss him back but before she knew it she was returning the kiss. Bonnie inwardly sighed as their lips moved together. He was making it very difficult for her right now.

It was when his tongue swiped across her bottom lip that she snapped back to her sense and pushed away from him. "No, no, no," she repeated in despair and got up from the seat. "This can't happen, I'm supposed to be hating you right now," she said pointedly at him.

"You don't have to hate me, Bonnie," he sighed and followed her as she began to walk off.

"Yes, I do," she responded and turned to face him. "Hating you is easier than lov…" she paused as she realised what she was about to say. "It's just easier."

"You hate me because I made you believe we were going to have a relationship, I get that but -

"That's not why I hate you," she cut him off. "I hate you for leaving me."

Kol's expression quickly turned from one of confusion to anger. "I was willing to stay, Bonnie, I was ready to work through it with you but you wanted me gone."

"Kol, I was angry, I just found out that you slept with me having every intention to leave afterwards. I said I wanted you gone but I didn't actually want you to!" Kol just looked at her. "I wanted you to ignore that and stay."

"And how was I supposed to know that?" Kol shot back, getting just as worked up as she was. "You were about ready to push me out the damn window if I didn't leave. You said you never wanted to see me again."

"I didn't mean it!" she nearly screamed at him.

"Then why did you say it?"

"I don't know," she shrugged, her voice lowering to its normal volume. "I wanted you to hurt," it sounded more like a question than a statement.

Kol couldn't help but wonder if she was just making things up now, trying to make herself feel better.

"I was hoping that you'd still be around in the morning and that we could have spoken again and maybe it would have gone a little better," she added and sat back down on one of the bleachers.

Kol sighed and sat back down next to her. "You could have called me," he said. "I would have come back if you asked me to."

"It's no use talking about what could have been," Bonnie muttered and put her face in her hands, elbows resting on her knees.

Bonnie couldn't do this anymore. She couldn't just sit here and talk to him. Screw Klaus, he could deal with Kol.

"I got to get back inside and finish up with the decorations because if Caroline finds out I skipped out on it, Silas will be the last of my worries," she said and stood up but she felt Kol's hand wrap around her wrist before she could leave.

He needed to say this before she left, she needed to know it.

"Please be careful with this Expression magic, Bonnie. I know it may seem like you have it under control but before you know it you'll realise that you don't and by that stage it may be too late," he had a grave look on his face as he warned her about her magic.

"I am in complete control of it, Kol," she told him rather convincingly before turning to leave him alone on the bleachers as she headed back inside the school.

"That's what they all say," he mumbled to himself with a sigh.

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The last thing Bonnie wanted to do was go back to doing decorations for the dance after her conversation with Kol, so when she got back inside to find that her father had cancelled the dance she nearly sighed in relief.

So with nothing else to do for the say, she had decided to spend the rest of the day at home. So that's what she did. She watched movies, ate ice cream but no matter what she did she kept replaying her conversation with Kol over and over again.

He is staying in Mystic Falls to protect her…he wants to keep her say.

She had mixed feelings about that. Unlike Shane or anyone else, Bonnie knew that Kol had no ulterior motives for her. He just wanted to keep her safe. But on the other hand, Bonnie felt like Kol had no right to do that. He couldn't just come back after three months and play the part of the over protective boyfriend.

He couldn't tell her what to do, or who she should or shouldn't protect. He might not know or understand the value of friendship but Bonnie does and she and Elena may not be as close as they once were, but Bonnie still considers Elena to be a sister. She will always be there for her.

Nothing Kol could say would change that.

xxx

"Should we maybe get Bonnie in on this?" Matt suggested to Elena and Jeremy as they were preparing the weapons. "She can help."

Elena shook her head. "No. I don't want her involved and I know she still has feelings for Kol," she said as she held Jeremy's phone, waiting for the right moment to ring the Original to lure him to the house.

"Then why aren't we just daggering him then?" Matt asked. "I might not like the guy but if Bonnie still likes him I don't think we should kill him."

"Kol took all the daggers aside from one which Rebekah has and we need to use that one on her," she explained to Matt. "And killing Kol will kill every vampire in his bloodline and that will complete Jeremy's hunter's mark and remove his compulsion from Damon. It's two birds with one stone, Matt."

"I just don't feel right in killing the guy Bonnie has feelings it for," he said. "Even if he is a complete douche."

"It'll be for the best, Matt," Elena said with a small smile but it didn't leave Matt convinced.

The blue eyed quarterback felt like there was another doppelganger in the room and not the compassionate girl that he grew up with. The Elena he knew wouldn't be doing something like this, especially when the risk was hurting someone so close to her.

Elena let out a deep breath as she faced the two teens. "Are you guys ready?"

Matt said and did nothing but Jeremy nodded and that was okay enough for Elena. She looked down to Jeremy's phone and began to search for Kol's number and held the phone to her ear as she waited for the Original to pick up.

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It was much later that evening when Bonnie was up in her room finishing up on some way overdue homework as she tried whatever she could to push what happened earlier with Kol out of her mind for just a few hours. But of course, her peace can never last long.

This time it was when she could hear her father arguing with someone downstairs.

Bonnie slammed her text book shut with an annoyed groan and left her room. "What is going on here?" she asked as she walked down the stairs to see her dad arguing with Klaus. "Klaus?" she asked with surprise. "What are you doing here?"

"Elena and Jeremy are about to kill Kol," Klaus said as soon as he saw her and Bonnie's face dropped at his words. "I need your help; I can't get in there to save him."

"What?" Bonnie exclaimed. They were trying to kill Kol?

"Bonnie, you are not going," her father jumped in but he was ignored by both supernaturals.

"Bonnie, please," Klaus pleaded with her. "I know you are angry with Kol and you have every right to be but I also know that deep down you still care about him."

"No, let's go," she said and grabbed her jacket and keys, ignoring her dad's protests and she walked out the door with Klaus and headed to her car. Her driving would be much quicker than the hybrid's speed.

Klaus was right. No matter how angry she was at Kol right now, she still loved him and she couldn't let him die.

She wouldn't.

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Guys this isn't funny! I have a serious illness! A Kennett Infection! I can't stop writing! I'm already half done with the next chapter! Seriously…what the hell has gotten in to me? Lol I've never written so much in such a short period of time the only thing is I hope the chapters have been okay. It's not like I'm rushing them, I've just had so much inspiration lately and I can't stop….I think the keyboard is removing my fingerprints! haha

I DON'T WANT IT TO END!

How something so traumatising as Kol's death can cause inspiration is beyond me but who am I to knock what's working? lol

Next chapter! I really like it and I hope you guys do too! Bonnie gets all up in Elena's face and pulls out some harsh truths and it will be filled with Kennett! Unfortunately it probably will not be uploaded until the weekend, I'm kind of busy for the rest of the week (It's my birthday on thurdsay! Haha shamelessly self-promoting lol) but it should definitely be up by next week.

This one didn't turn out as long as I had hoped but I'm still pretty happy with it and hope you are too (do the quick updates make up for it for the shortness?). More Kennett angst and tension to come. It's far from over; I'm having too much fun!

Mistakes are all mine and a big sorry for them and please leave a review! They make me smile :D

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